A long Week

It has been a VERY long week. I haven't uploaded any pictures yet, but they will be up later this week-end. I started school Monday as France doesn't celebrate many American holidays. I have class Mon and Thursday at the American University of Paris from 10:30-1:00. It takes about a half-hour to get across Paris to the school by metro. Then I was fortunate enough to have plenty of French lessons at the Sorbonne (part of the University of Paris). Theses classes last from 3-5pm everyday of the week. I also get phonetic lessons to accompany this class from 1:30-2:30pm everyday for the first 4 weeks. The phonetics and French classes are both within walking distance of my apartment, each about 15 minutes away but in opposite directions. So class takes up a lot of time.

However the good news is I haven't let class slow me down. We have had several fun nights which i will supply pictures of later. On Monday we tired out the bar below our apartment called Cafe Universel, its a Jazz place. Tuesday night we had a picnic by the Eiffel Tower's and watched its little light show while drinking some wine. Wednesday we planned for this weekend and Thursday (happy belated anniversary Mom) we went to the Vogue Fashion Night Out Event. That was Jessie's idea has you all who know my fashion taste can imagine. It was a huge thing were a bunch of fancy, well known stores celebrate fashion in hopes of revving up the economy with lots of purchases. As I could not afford anything we simply went and ate little elegant desserts and drank champagne at places like Dior and Louis Vuitton. It was great because it was huge and like was like little parties in all these fancy stores along two blocks. Truthfully it was semi-accidental that we even got in as Jessie knew about it and i convinced her to buy a Vogue magazine to make sure it was real, then it turned out our magazine had an invite in it. so we got into all these places with some invite we happened upon. :)

And now that Friday has come I'm getting ready to go on a night train to Munich. Saturday I will wake up to Oktoberfest! Hopefully I'll be back Sunday and have tons of photos from the whole week to post. All i could find now was this ad from NYC's event that was part of the one in Paris and like 10 other cities.
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY MELISSA!!!!!